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Donaghmore: Famine Museum - set in Donaghmore Workhouse. County Mayo. Doo Lough: A memorial commemorates famine victims of the Doolough Tragedy who walked from Louisburgh along the mountain road to Delphi Lodge to seek relief from the Poor Board who were meeting there. Returning after their request was refused, many of them died at this point.
The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II.An estimated 800,000–3.8 million people died, [A] in the Bengal region (present-day Bangladesh and West Bengal), from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions, poor ...
[8] Silva and Carter separated to take pictures of both children and adults, both the living and dead, all victims of the catastrophic famine that had arisen through the war. Carter went several times to Silva to tell him about the shocking situation he had just photographed. Witnessing the famine affected him emotionally.
Bridgeman Images: Author: Willoughby Wallace Hooper (1837–1912) Alternative names: ... {Information |Description=Victims of the Madras Famine ...
The Great Famine of 1876–1878 was a famine in India under British Crown rule. It began in 1876 after an intense drought resulted in crop failure in the Deccan Plateau . [ 1 ] It affected south and Southwestern India —the British-administered presidencies of Madras and Bombay , and the princely states of Mysore and Hyderabad —for a period ...
Pictures of the famine caused by the Nigerian blockade garnered sympathy for the Biafrans worldwide. ... Victims of the Great Famine of 1876–78 in India during ...
The immediate causes were, of course, ghastly TV pictures of famine in that country and U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's pleas for help to get food past the guns of armed gangs into ...
The National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide (Ukrainian: Національний музей Голодомору-геноциду, romanized: Natsionalnyi muzei Holodomoru-henotsydu), [2] formerly known as the Memorial in Commemoration of the Holodomor-Genocide in Ukraine, is Ukraine's national museum and a centre devoted to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933, a man-made famine that ...